Maiden off the flat? Do you hand launch before committing to the tow to check all is ok?
Cliff, what happened to the supersize photos we used to get with a couple of clicks, has that option been lost in the forum update?
Re: WHO'S BUILDING WHAT FOR 2020...?
Posted: 06 Feb 2020, 08:58
by Cliff Evans
Looking into it Stephen. Some threads are showing bigger pics.
Re: WHO'S BUILDING WHAT FOR 2020...?
Posted: 06 Feb 2020, 09:10
by Cliff Evans
Cliff Evans wrote: ↑06 Feb 2020, 08:58
Looking into it Stephen. Some threads are showing bigger pics.
Ok, have found a setting that had changed and has been resizing images when uploaded. Have changed that now so that it does not do that anymore. All images uploaded before I changed this setting will be smaller so if you want bigger images to display in the lightbox, you will have to delete the posted images and re-post
Re: WHO'S BUILDING WHAT FOR 2020...?
Posted: 06 Feb 2020, 12:49
by chris williams
You need a breeze to hand launch even a small model, and there was no appreciable wind on the day. I have always tried to do this when I could: the heaviest model I have ever hand launched on the flat was my 3rd scale Habicht (32lbs)... I couldn't do that now!
Re: WHO'S BUILDING WHAT FOR 2020...?
Posted: 07 Feb 2020, 09:48
by chris williams
On the same day as the Minimoa maiden, Peter Chaldecott's little Wolf had it's first aerotow. Despite the scary take off, Peter's out of therapy now...!
Re: WHO'S BUILDING WHAT FOR 2020...?
Posted: 13 Feb 2020, 16:28
by Cliff Evans
Our newest member "mAtzi" from Austria has sent me some photos and a link to a video of his scratch-built Scud-1. It is built to a scale of 1/2.5
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Re: WHO'S BUILDING WHAT FOR 2020...?
Posted: 19 Feb 2020, 19:33
by B Sharp
This build has been a long time coming, having been on my “Must Build” list for at least a couple of decades. All the gliders that I build have significance to me in that I have either flown or lusted over the full size machine. In the case of the Pilatus B4 I can see from my old and rather tattered log book that I flew it a total of six times back in the late 1970s. My first three flights were winch launches and circuits just to prove to the CFI that I was not going to dent the clubs “Tin Can” as we called it. I then managed three further flights of 32 minutes, 1 hour 5 minutes and 2 hours 25 minutes over the next few months. My memory of the aeroplane was that it was a delight to fly but it rattled a bit.
It is quite a while since I last did a scratch build and on this one I have decided to go “old school”. I couldn’t find a suitable plan to 1:4 scale so I have drawn it myself with good old paper, pencil, scale and straight edge. I am using DevCad for the fuselage formers. I have even constructed the wheel retract unit. However this is not going to be a “Chris Williams” three week build as I have lots of other irons in the fire at the moment but I hope to have it complete sometime this year.
Brian.
Re: WHO'S BUILDING WHAT FOR 2020...?
Posted: 19 Feb 2020, 19:48
by Peter Balcombe
Well done Brian,
I look forward to following the ‘real time’ build.
Peter